{"id":535,"date":"2016-03-23T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T06:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/?p=535"},"modified":"2022-02-21T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:13:15","slug":"how-often-should-you-have-sex-to-get-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/how-often-should-you-have-sex-to-get-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"How Often Should You Have Sex to Get Pregnant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend any time at all\u00a0looking for\u00a0fertility advice on the Internet, you&#8217;ve probably heard that you&#8217;re supposed to have sex every other day\u00a0before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/when-does-ovulation-occur\/\">ovulation occurs<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/increase-chances-of-getting-pregnant\/\">increase your chances of getting pregnant<\/a>. For many couples, that seems reasonable enough, and they don&#8217;t give it another thought.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re the inquisitive type, like we are, you might ask yourself: if every other day is good, wouldn&#8217;t every day be even better? Or maybe sex every other day seems like too much.\u00a0Could you get away with having sex a little less?<\/p>\n<p>How did we land on the consensus for sex every other day, anyway? Is it actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/how-to-get-pregnant-fast\/\">how to get pregnant fast<\/a>? Or is it one of those Internet rumors that gets repeated so much people start to believe it?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the recommendation to have sex every other day is pretty sound, but it&#8217;s a surprisingly complex path to get there. A\u00a0number of factors influence the recommendation, some of them almost contradicting one another.\u00a0We&#8217;ll spell it all out for you below, and reveal why some couples might be better off doing it every day.<\/p>\n<p>Read on, then decide for yourself.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Does your partner need to &#8220;save up&#8221; his sperm for when you ovulate?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It depends on your partner&#8217;s sperm count.\u00a0Normal sperm count is considered at least 20 million per milliliter of ejaculate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3343360\/\">Chances of conceiving are higher with higher sperm counts<\/a> (this tops out at 40 million per milliliter of ejaculate, above which there is no additional fertility benefit).<\/p>\n<p>Regular ejaculation keeps sperm healthy, especially for men with low sperm count.\u00a0If your partner goes more than a day or two without ejaculating, his sperm count will rise. But if he had a low sperm count to begin with, so too will the proportion of dead, immotile, or morphologically abnormal sperm increase\u2014hurting your chances for conception.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to outdated recommendations that men avoid ejaculating for several days in order to &#8220;save up&#8221; sperm, this may actually be <em>worse<\/em> for sperm in men who already have a low sperm count.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertstert.org\/article\/S0015-0282(05)00540-6\/fulltext\">A study of about 6,000 men<\/a> found that for men whose sperm counts were already low, sperm motility decreased after one day of abstinence, and sperm quality decreased after two days of abstinence.<\/p>\n<p>In men with normal sperm counts, sperm quality was not affected until 7 days of abstinence.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: it&#8217;s not necessary to avoid sex for several days before ovulation. And for men with low sperm count, doing so might even be harmful.<\/p>\n<h2>Does having sex multiple times a day increase your chances of pregnancy?<\/h2>\n<p>Possibly\u2014especially for men with low sperm count. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/8034087\">1994 study<\/a> of almost 600 men found that ejaculating within 1 \u2013 4 hours, and again 24 hours later, increased the total motile sperm count. The researches concluded that these men could significantly increase their fertility potential by having sex daily, or even twice a day, at the time of ovulation.<\/p>\n<p>More recent research echoes these findings. A small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26776821\/\">2016 study<\/a> of 73 men found that ejaculating twice in one hour produced more normal sperm and better motility in the second ejaculation.<\/p>\n<p>These benefits were found only in men with decreased sperm counts, so if your guy has a normal sperm count, you shouldn&#8217;t count on increasing your chances from having sex multiple times per day. You just might wear each other out!<\/p>\n<h2>Is it better to have sex every day, or every other day when you&#8217;re ovulating?<\/h2>\n<p>Having sex every day during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/how-ava-works\/\">your fertile window<\/a> (usually the five\u00a0days leading up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/how-long-does-ovulation-last\/\">the day of ovulation<\/a>, and the day of ovulation itself) gives you a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJM199512073332301\">25 percent chance at\u00a0conceiving<\/a>. Doing it every other day gives you slightly lower chances, 22 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, your chances of getting pregnant are only very slightly better when you&#8217;re having sex every day versus every other day of the fertile window.<\/p>\n<p>That means that if it&#8217;s hard for you or your partner to find the motivation for daily sex (we don&#8217;t blame you!), you can rest assured that your chances are basically the same when you have sex every other day.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re purposefully having sex more than once during your fertile window, you&#8217;re already better off than couples who only have sex once per week without any regard for when ovulation occurs. Couples who have untimed sex once per week have only a 10 percent chance of conceiving in a given month.<\/p>\n<p>You can track your fertile window with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/when-does-implantation-occur\/\">ovulation tests<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/vaginal-discharge\/\">vaginal discharge<\/a> (aka cervical mucus), an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\/avaworld\/ovulation-tracker\/\">ovulation tracker<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avawomen.com\">Ava bracelet<\/a>. If you have a hard time tracking your fertile window or just don&#8217;t feel like it, just have sex roughly every other day all month long. With this schedule, you&#8217;re guaranteed to have sex at some point during your peak fertile time.**<\/p>\n<h2>Sex when you&#8217;re not ovulating<\/h2>\n<p>You might think that what you do in your non-fertile window doesn&#8217;t have much of an impact on your chances of conception. In fact, it does! A recent study shows, somewhat radically, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26385401\">sex\u00a0changes\u00a0a woman\u2019s immune system in ways that improve\u00a0her chances of conceiving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t burn yourself out<\/h2>\n<p>One of the biggest problems that couples who are trying to get pregnant struggle with is a feeling of burnout when it comes to sex. When we asked a group of Ava users how they felt about having sex for conception, they used words like &#8220;robotic,&#8221; &#8220;tedious,&#8221; &#8220;stressful,&#8221; and &#8220;emotionally draining.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For most couples, the slight increase in conception probability with daily sex versus every-other-day probably isn&#8217;t worth it. Then again, if you&#8217;re like the Ava user who told us &#8220;I&#8217;m always in the mood when I know I&#8217;m ovulating!&#8221; then hey, do it every day! (As long as your partner has a decent sperm count.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35721 size-blog-width\" src=\"https:\/\/avablog-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/final-1-900x672.png\" alt=\"how often should you have sex to get pregnant?\" width=\"900\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avablog-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-offloaded-content\/final-1-900x672.png 900w, https:\/\/avablog-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-offloaded-content\/final-1-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/avablog-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-offloaded-content\/final-1-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/avablog-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-offloaded-content\/final-1-279x209.png 279w, https:\/\/avablog-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-offloaded-content\/final-1.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Interesting fact: sperm concentration for a 35-year-old man went from an average of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23213178\">73.6 million\/mL in 1989 to 49.9 million\/mL in 2005<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>**In this scenario, your chances for conception *might* be slightly higher if you had sex every day during your fertile window. But without knowing exactly when that is, you&#8217;d have to have sex every single day for months on end just to make sure you were always hitting it. (Your fertile window, that is. You&#8217;d already always be hitting it.) Anyway, the modest increase in conception probability you&#8217;d gain probably isn&#8217;t worth the decrease in sexual satisfaction most couples feel when they attempt to have sex that much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend any time at all\u00a0looking for\u00a0fertility advice on the Internet, you&#8217;ve probably heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[894,772],"tags":[391,45,46,400],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.3 (Yoast SEO v18.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Often Should You Have Sex to Get Pregnant?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You might have heard that it&#039;s best to have sex every other day for the best chances to get pregnant. 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